E-Books

Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)--the
largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included.
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"source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000
pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials... intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art."--'About the database' page.
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Literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora. A tool for understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and
development of black people in the Diaspora.
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"The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically
on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writiings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group."--Title screen.
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Searchable database of the correspondence of Dolley Payne Madison, seen as the most important First Lady of the nineteenth century. Will ultimately include
close to 2,500 letters. An important scholarly contribution to the literature of the early republic, women's history, and the institution of the First Lady.
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Covering American history and literature from the colonial period through the 18th century, this database of some 37,000 titles is a full-text digitization
of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography.
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Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this database provides full-text access to 36,000 American books,
pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the 19th century. Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
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Covers the feminist movement in Cuba between Cuban independence and the end of the Batista regime. Includes Aspiraciones (1918), an early feminist journal
published by the Partido Feminista Aspiraciones; La Mujer Moderno (1926), the journal for the Club Femenino de Cuba, the oldest Cuban feminist organization; and La Mujer (1929-1931), the journal of the Partido Demócrata Sufragista. Part of Archives Unbound.
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"... project, sponsored by Sweet Briar College, dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by inspirational, influential and contemporary,
women from around the world."--Brief history.
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A digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions. It was initially
conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
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Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden
to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.
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A four-year project to digitize over 1 million pages from the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative press archives of participating libraries.
Starting with collections by feminists and the GI press, the collection will grow to include small literary magazines, underground newspapers, LGBT periodicals, the minority press (Latino, Black and Native American) and the extreme right-wing press.
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"includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. ... also offers numerous biographical and critical
essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project."--Publisher's description.
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The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by
Italian women authors. Our goal is to bring information on and texts by both famous and previously neglected Italian women writers to a wider audience of students, scholars, teachers, and the general public, and to preserve these often fragile texts for generations to come.
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"an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included
are essays by Latin American feminists and revolutionaries ..."--Home page.
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"... brings together 100,000 pages [when complete] of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images
of the original manuscripts, extensively indexed and online for the first time."--Home page.
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When complete, this collection will include more than 1,500 plays written by women, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information
spanning from the 18th century to the present.
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Provides access to some 150,000 pages of letters and diaries of 1,300+ women writing from Colonial times to 1950. Writers reflect all age groups and life
stages, all ethnicities, and many geographical regions.
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Provides indexing to English language oral histories held in repositories and collections; includes interview-level records (some with full text; some
with links to audio or video on external websites).
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Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present includes biographical and writing career entries on British women writers,
selected non-British or international women writers, and selected British and international men. Also includes dated items representing events and processes (in the accounts of these writers, but also in the areas of history, science, medicine, economics, the law, and other contexts).
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"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography [Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time],
this [online] collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions ..."--Gale databases description.
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Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)--the
largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. Includes more than 1,200 titles.
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Provides SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period, including anthologies, broadsides, and volumes
of poetry and verse drama. Access info: Click on "Proceed to Victorian Women Writers Collection" and choose your preferred mode of access.
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Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.

Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 6045 .O72 1997

"The complete works of Virginia Woolf including variant and hard-to-find editions. Over 12,000 manuscript images from the Henry W and Albert A. Berg Collection
at the New York Public Library and the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex"--Portfolio.
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Wife of Bath's prologue

Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868 .W654 R63 1996

Provides a transcription of all 58 15th-century witnesses to The wife of Bath's prologue, with word-by-word collation of the witnesses, digital images
of all pages transcribed, transcriptions of glosses, descriptions of the witnesses, and spelling databases.
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Provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums
on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930.
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Women Writers Online is a full-text collectin of early women's writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It
includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible. The range of genres and topics covered makes it a truly remarkable resource for teaching and research, providing an unparalleled view of women's literatary culture in the early modern period. The WWO collection contains more than 320 texts published between 1526 and 1850. It is available by subscription to institutions and individuals.
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